Deal Desk Lead — AI-Driven Contract Strategist

Instalily, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 165,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical benefits

401K

Well-being stipend

Lunch reimbursement

Paid time off

Job summary

InstaLILY is hiring its first Deal Desk Lead to own every customer agreement end to end: SOWs, MSAs, DPAs, Schedule A, SLAs and order forms. Today this work is split across teams; the hire becomes the primary author and leads negotiations with enterprise legal and procurement.

This in New York office role sits between commercial contracting and technical scoping. Expect high-volume SOWs as the sales team scales, with speed and accuracy as core priorities.

Qualifications

• 5 to 8 years drafting and negotiating commercial agreements for a B2B software or technology services company.

Responsibilities

• Create first drafts of SOWs and MSAs using standard language and precedent library.
• Own the full agreement set (MSA, SLA, DPA, Schedule A) for each deal.
• Coordinate redlines with customer legal, procurement and security teams.
• Move deals quickly through signature with weekly reporting to sales leadership.
• Educate and enable the sales team to ensure properly scoped deals.
• Ensure consistency between proposed terms and executed documents.
• Safeguard scope, data sources, regions, and data handling in agreements.
• Translate technical and hosting requirements into contract language.
• Negotiate DPAs including SCCs and UK Addendum with data protection terms.
• Escalate approvals from growth, engineering and leadership when needed.
• Maintain templates and playbooks for contracting.
• Set up intake and tracking for all live agreements.

Skills

Deal drafting

Negotiation

Legal operations

AI-native drafting

Cloud hosting

Data protection

In-person collaboration

Fast-paced execution

Tools

Ironclad

Docassemble

Job description

InstaLILY is hiring its first Deal Desk Lead to own every customer agreement end to end: SOWs, MSAs, DPAs, Schedule A, SLAs and order forms. Today this work is split across teams; the hire becomes the primary author and leads negotiations with enterprise legal and procurement.

This in New York office role sits between commercial contracting and technical scoping. Expect high-volume SOWs as the sales team scales, with speed and accuracy as core priorities.